Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Game board structure
Patent
1992-11-27
1994-01-25
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Game board structure
273239, 273148A, 273309, 273431, A63F 300, A63F 918, A63F 110
Patent
active
052809145
ABSTRACT:
A new and improved educational board game is disclosed that employs dice, personal markers, a plurality of two-sided game cards, and a game board. The game board includes indicia, a portion of which corresponds to different levels of difficulty of a predetermined educational category such as history, and a portion of which corresponds to instructions with respect to movement of the personal markers along the game board. The front side of the game card bears a picture of a historical figure, and the back side bears textual information about the historical figure on the front side. During a player's turn, when the player selects one of the game cards, the player looks at the picture on the front side of the selected card. Another player then reads aloud information relating to the picture from the back side of the card. From the information read aloud, the first player learns factual knowledge and makes a guess at the identity of the historical figure in the picture. If the player is correct, the player gets credit for having earned that card. The game cards are grouped into three groups representing three different levels of difficulty which are designated to be undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. levels. The game is won by the player who first successfully earns a respective predetermined number of game cards for the respective three levels of difficulty.
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Selby Clifton B.
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